Top 59 Self Written Quotes
#1. Albums, with me, have never had an easy birth. Especially when all the songs are self-written songs.
Marc Almond
#2. Henry James's later works would have been better had he resisted that curious sort of self-indulgence, dictating to a secretary. The roaming garrulousness of ordinary speech is usually corrected when it's transcribed into written prose.
Joyce Carol Oates
#3. Elsewhere I've written that Jesus came not only for those who skip morning meditations, but also for real sinners, thieves, adulterers, and terrorists, for those caught up in squalid choices and failed dreams. I HAVE COME TO CALL NOT THE SELF-RIGHTEOUS, BUT SINNERS. (MATT. 9:13)
Brennan Manning
#4. I've always had self-belief, though my sensitive side has never been fully appreciated. For every 'Down in the Tube Station at Midnight,' I've written an 'English Rose.' People forget.
Paul Weller
#5. It's time that I stop referring to myself, thinking about myself, planning for myself, according to the gridlines and the timelines and the guidelines of people. I will expand in this universe, I will not stay on the lines nor within the lines written by this world.
C. JoyBell C.
#6. True memoir is written, like all literature, in an attempt to find not only a self but a world
Patricia Hampl
#7. Because you are the product of an educational system which recycles historical facts written by the victors whose perceptions are often skewed and self-serving.
Ednah Walters
#8. Sensed his darkness; his rage; his white-knuckle self discipline. She knew that the face he wore in her presence was not his own; other than his name, it was all she knew of him, despite the length of their acquaintance.
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#9. In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.
Oscar Wilde
#11. I seek to speak to you, in some way, as your own self. Who can tell what this may mean? I myself do not know, but if you listen, things will be said that are perhaps not written in this book. And this will be due not to me but to the One who lives and speaks in both.
Thomas Merton
#12. It's a little mad, but I believe I am many people. When I am writing a poem, I feel I am the person who should have written it.
Anne Sexton
#13. Philip Martin has written a wise, compassionate, and nurturing guide through the self-oppression of depression.
Harold H. Bloomfield
#15. The divine pattern is your life
purpose. It is a story about your
divine self and it is written
within - your heart
Alain Yaovi M. Dagba
#16. For years she had lived in a vacuum of emotions, and now emotions boiled in her: love, fear, hope, shame, self-pity, pride; each struggled for supremacy, ruling only briefly, before surrendering to a contender that was sometimes darker and sometimes lighter, but always different.
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#17. Where is it written that one should only care about big things?
David Brin
#18. Failure feelings - fear, anxiety, lack of self-confidence - do not spring from some heavenly oracle. They are not written in the stars. They are not holy gospel. Nor are they intimations of a set and decided fate which means that failure is decreed and decided. They originate from your own mind.
Maxwell Maltz
#19. Writers are often the worst judges of what they have written.
Stephen King
#20. Leases, writes, statutes, all are written to be read and each person reads them by the light of self-interest.
Hilary Mantel
#21. I've written since I was 10 years old, so I guess I'm self-taught. I've had some luck along the way, I must admit, and I've worked hard.
Linda Lael Miller
#22. I've written books for awhile, but always on a pretty small scale and always pretty self-indulgent. I chose projects that I thought would be really fun to work on and found friends to work on them with me, and it was all about the process.
Chelsea Cain
#23. have written my first grateful thanks for a fresh new day in a new year.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#24. I had written hundreds of memos during my 26 years at the company, and all had shared a common thread. They were about self-examination in the pursuit of excellence, and a willingness not to embrace the status quo. This is a cornerstone of my leadership philosophy.
Howard Schultz
#26. And finally, have you trained well enough so you can say what you want to say without getting hamstrung? Have you written enough so that you are relaxed and can allow the truth to get out without being ruined by self-conscious posturings or changed by a desire to become rich?
Ray Bradbury
#27. There are books showing men how to succeed in everything; they are written by men who cannot even succeed in writing books.
G.K. Chesterton
#28. Every novel I've written has been about finding stuff out. I'm motivated much more by curiosity than by self-expression.
Jane Smiley
#29. As the two of us - past self, my present self - hovered over her bed, I could see each cruel damage written across her skin, beneath her eyes, down into her bones. She was no longer the way she wanted to be remembered. She was already more breath than body.
David Levithan
#30. Hold unto your Dreams and Visions for our heros past
did and history have written their names in Gold
Ikechukwu Joseph
#31. You are a goddess. You are a catch. You are, like, the outcome of every self-help book ever written.
Georgia Clark
#32. We write not just to show off, not just to tell, or only to have written. We write to know ourselves.
Jane Yolen
#33. Like words written in the sand taken away by waves
Thousands of years of culture discovered in lost caves
Climbing to a mountain at it's highest peak
Out of no where strength when thought down and weak
Justin Bienvenue
#34. Often one spends weeks trying to write a poem out of the conscious mind that never comes to anything - these are sort of 'ideal' poems that one feels ought to be written, but don't because (I fancy) they lack the vital spark of self-interest. A 'real' poem is a pleasure to write.
Philip Larkin
#35. For the critic, criticism is a form of natural self-expression, as poetry is to the poet. So, for a critic, criticism is a true thing. Criticism isn't written for poets, it's written for other readers. One hopes it is true for other readers if it's true for oneself.
Helen Vendler
#36. I'm not a good kid. Yeah, look, I'm just a piece of paper with the word sad and a bunch of cuss words written on it.
A lousy piece of paper. That's me.
A piece of paper that's waiting to be torn up.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#37. If the past can't be changed, and the future's already written; what's the point in living?
Douglas Self
#38. I had always been fascinated with Napoleon because he was a self-made emperor; Victor Hugo said, 'Napoleon's will to power,' and it was the title of my paper. And I submitted it to my teacher, and he didn't think I had written it. And he wanted me to explain it to him.
August Wilson
#39. How was I able to live alone before, my little everything? Without you I lack self-confidence, passion for work, and enjoyment of life
in short, without you, my life is no life.
[Written to his wife, Mileva]
Albert Einstein
#40. There are countless books written on self-defense. Not all are non- sensical, but many are. Nathaniel Cooke has clearly thought a great deal about the subject and distilled its essence in a way that is wholly admirable.
Robert Twigger
#41. I have not written my memoirs for those young people who can only save themselves from falling by spending their youth in ignorance, but for those whom experience of life has rendered proof against being seduced, whom living in the fire has transformed into salamanders.
Giacomo Casanova
#42. But, sir, they have written me down upon the history of the country as worthy of expulsion, and in no unkindness I must tell them that for all future time my self-respect requires that I shall pass them as strangers.
Preston Brooks
#43. Why is it that one of the best songs in the world has to be written by the BeeGees?
Benedict
Tricia Walker
#44. This book was written under the umbrella of self-acceptance. The sooner we are okay with being different from one another, the sooner we can get on with being the best version of ourselves and love how we were created.
Becky Murphy
#45. The law is that you
must live
in the house you have built.
The law is absurd: it is
written down nowhere.
You are uncertain what crime
is, though each life writhing to
elude what it has made
feels like punishment.
Frank Bidart
#46. Well, my father [Kingsley Amis] was a writer and it seemed natural to start writing in my late teens. I think it was good that I began when I was young and bold and foolish, otherwise I'd have become too self-conscious and aware of the weight of not having written anything yet.
Martin Amis
#47. Write hand-written notes daily and commit to supporting the growth and self-esteem of children, because it makes such a big difference in terms of their capacity for learning.
Debra Messing
#48. A bookshelf is a biography written by others.
Kat Lehmann
#49. When a manic-depressive personality begins to slide deeply into a depressive period, he had written, one symptom he or she may exhibit is acts of self-punishment: slapping, punching, pinching, burning one's self w/ cigarette butts,
Stephen King
#50. A few diaries could replace tons of self help books simply because their written in the first person ...
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#51. Democrats, if they're smart and they're not brain-dead, are doing two things right now.They're having self-deprecating humor written for them. There was no humor in Cleveland. And they are not making this a Donald Trump.
Mark Shields
#52. If you're looking for self-help, why would you read a book written by somebody else?
George Carlin
#53. Perhaps it was a tacit acknowledgement of her tendency to find danger, to gravitate towards self-destruction, but she'd been terrified of heights all her life.
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#54. Never fails. Every new book I write seems impossible, writes like I'm typing from dictation, edits like I didn't write it, and finishes like I couldn't possibly have written it.
Kris Rafferty
#55. No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is no need of any written authority.
Ernestine Rose
#56. Religion doesn't mean obeying some textual rules from books that were written hundreds or thousands of years ago. Religion means realization of the self.
Abhijit Naskar
#57. Since the songs were written over a five-year period, I think these are little snapshots. Some people call it political or topical, but I think each song is self-contained. I think it fits together as a picture of the last half-decade of time.
Conor Oberst
#59. I don't want to accept an idea of life where the success of the self is measured by the success of the written page.
Elena Ferrante
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